Our awareness of our agreements, of how we interact in community, invites our full engagement. “Participating is essential to the forming and the sustaining of community. If we take just the word “part,” it points only to the individual human being. But we must create this other aspect of “participation,” which is reciprocity, the exchange of the common good. This is the nature of the community, a process of exchanging with each other and cultivating something that I can’t create by myself. I can’t create something that complex by myself. It is a discovery that when we participate, the emergent quality is something that spontaneously reveals itself, that in the act of hosting and being hosted in this improvisation of devotion to some aspect of our human genius, we arrive at something that we couldn’t see beforehand. You could say that we share this “communion,” this wonderful substance. This is the “precipitation” of the spiritual substance of human life. It condenses, it manifests, and it becomes now tangible in the world. Participation is rain in the world (p. 208).”